Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city.
New American Standard Bible
Because of all the daughters of my city.
King James Version
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Holman Bible
because of the fate of all the women in my city.
International Standard Version
What I see grieves my soul because of all the young women of my city.
A Conservative Version
My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
American Standard Version
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Amplified
My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
Darby Translation
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
King James 2000
My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My eyes inflict my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Modern King James verseion
My eye pains my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eye breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
NET Bible
What my eyes see grieves me -- all the suffering of the daughters in my city.
New Heart English Bible
My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.
The Emphasized Bible
Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Webster
My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
World English Bible
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Youngs Literal Translation
My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:51
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
50 Till Jehovah shall look forth and see from the heavens. 51 Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city. 52 Hunting, they hunted me as a bird, mine enemies, gratuitously.
Cross References
Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father and the youth not with me? lest I shall look upon the evil which shall find my father.
1 Samuel 30:3-4
And David will come, and his men, to the city, and behold, it burnt with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captive.
Jeremiah 4:19-21
My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.
Jeremiah 11:22
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me reviewing over them: their young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
Jeremiah 14:16
And the people which they are prophesying to them shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, from the face of the famine and the sword; and none to them burying them, their wives and their sons and their daughters; and I poured their evil upon them.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I shall go forth into the field, and behold, the wounded of the sword and if I came into the city, and behold, they shall be sick with famine for also the prophet, also the priest went about to a land they knew not
Jeremiah 19:9
And I caused them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each the flesh of his neighbor shall they eat in the straitness and in the distress which their enemies, and they seeking their souls, shall press upon them.
Lamentations 1:18
Jehovah he is just: for I embittered his mouth: hear now, all ye peoples, and see my pain: my virgins and my chosen ones went into captivity.
Lamentations 2:21
The youth and old man lay down upon the earth of the streets; my virgins and my young men fell by the sword; thou didst slay in the day of thine anger; thou didst slay, thou didst not pity.
Lamentations 5:11
They humbled the women in Zion the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Luke 19:41-44
And as he drew near, having seen the city, he wept over it,